New from New York

Hello people! I have been reading many posts on this forum for the last few days, and I think I am in the right place. I am a beginner, but have some awareness of whats out there. I am looking for some help in getting started.

I am looking for recommendations around pu-ehr and oolong. Specifically utensils, water, cups the whole shabang.

Also if you had one Shincha to buy, what would it be right now, or if there is a place with a good sampler?

Den of Den's Tea offers 2 OZ packages of shincha. I have not tried his shincha personally, but I bought many of his other teas and loved them all. He sells top quality stuff and is well loved by tea snobs... er... connoisseurs here.

RussianSoul wrote:Den of Den's Tea offers 2 OZ packages of shincha. I have not tried his shincha personally, but I bought many of his other teas and loved them all. He sells top quality stuff and is well loved by tea snobs... er... connoisseurs here.

Quite expensive. For the same amount of money, you can get 100 gr from Japanese sellers.

RussianSoul wrote:Den of Den's Tea offers 2 OZ packages of shincha. I have not tried his shincha personally, but I bought many of his other teas and loved them all. He sells top quality stuff and is well loved by tea snobs... er... connoisseurs here.

Quite expensive. For the same amount of money, you can get 100 gr from Japanese sellers.

There's always the difference in shipping to consider though. Den's has rather local / cheap / free shipping for us US peeps. Japanese sellers sometimes have free shipping some don't. Like I haven't ordered from Ippodo due to the ludicrously high shipping rates. And Den's has that lovely 3 dollar sampler which gets refunded after your first purchase

Pentox wrote:And Den's has that lovely 3 dollar sampler which gets refunded after your first purchase

I ordered from Den's last night for the first time, and missed the 3 dollar samplers. Phooey.

Guess what - I e-mailed Den's first thing after posting this message, and later today they got back to me to say that since they hadn't sent out the shipment yet, they could and would add the sampler to my order.

Yay!!!

Thanks so much for mentioning it, Pentox. I just squeaked under the wire, there